Help talk:What links here

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 * 08:13, 27 November 2005 User:Uncle G (Fixed capitalization of template name.)
 * 03:46, 25 November 2005 User:Uncle G (Fixed capitalization of template name.)
 * 17:19, 17 November 2005 User:Uncle G (Fixed hyperlinks that break when this page is copied to other projects.)
 * 05:29, 16 November 2005 User:Uncle G (Replacement of with )
 * 10:44, 7 November 2005 User:217.221.107.130 (→Limitation)
 * 10:43, 7 November 2005 User:217.221.107.130 (→Limitation)
 * 21:49, 2 August 2005 User:Langec (rev vandalism by User:Mithun uds)
 * 07:30, 2 August 2005 User:Mithun uds
 * 14:29, 29 June 2005 User:Patrick (seems fixed)
 * 14:02, 27 June 2005 User:Patrick (BUG: the parameters offset and limit, for which links are provided, do not seem to work, see e.g. commons:Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:English, which gives the same (presumably all) ca. 5500 pag)
 * 13:41, 27 June 2005 User:Patrick (→Workarounds for the 999-limit - rm)
 * 13:41, 27 June 2005 User:Patrick (→Limitations - update)
 * 13:39, 27 June 2005 User:Patrick (From MediaWiki 1.5 (http://test.leuksman.com/) the limit and ofset can be specified, there is no more the general limit of 999.)
 * 10:33, 19 June 2005 User:Patrick (→Workarounds for the 999-limit - 999)
 * 10:31, 19 June 2005 User:Patrick m (→Limitations)
 * 10:30, 19 June 2005 User:Patrick (→Limitations)
 * 10:28, 19 June 2005 User:Patrick (→Limitations)
 * 10:23, 19 June 2005 User:Patrick
 * 21:30, 6 June 2005 User:Patrick m (→Other uses)
 * 21:28, 6 June 2005 User:Patrick ((for example, on w:en: there is the requirement that when viewing an article in a category, it is obvious why the article is in the category, and that the category subject is prominently discussed in)
 * 13:19, 26 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Cases of transclusion)
 * 13:11, 26 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Cases of transclusion)
 * 13:05, 26 May 2005 User:Patrick (to find out what templates cause pages to link to C, it is not sufficient to check for templates in the backlinks of C; some templates can only be found by checking what templates are used in the back)
 * 11:58, 26 May 2005 User:Patrick m (→Other uses)
 * 11:56, 26 May 2005 User:Patrick (not only pages and subcategories, but also the contents of the subcategories (for each a list of pages and a list of sub-subcategories) and the contents of the sub-sub-subcategories (for each a list o)
 * 11:40, 26 May 2005 User:Patrick m (→Redirects)
 * 10:08, 26 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Redirects - The backlinks of the redirect are also shown, and if they include a redirect, and the backlinks of that also (not more).)
 * 09:44, 26 May 2005 User:Patrick (for the purpose of backlinks and Related changes, A links to C if there is, in that order, a chain of template calls, a single redirect, template calls, a single redirect, etc., template calls, and a)
 * 09:35, 26 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Workarounds for the 500-limit)
 * 09:33, 26 May 2005 User:Patrick (As a workaround for the 500-limit, the set of pages linking to a given page can be divided in subsets of not more than 500, each linking to an auxiliary page which redirects to the target page. Altern)
 * 08:49, 26 May 2005 User:Patrick m (→Cases of transclusion)
 * 08:46, 26 May 2005 User:Patrick (Even without a template name depending on a variable or parameter, if page A links to page C due to the inclusion of template B1 which redirects to B2, A is in the list of backlinks of C but B1 is not)
 * 15:39, 25 May 2005 User:Patrick m (→Cases of transclusion)
 * 15:35, 25 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Cases of transclusion)
 * 15:15, 25 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Cases of transclusion - Whether there is a link from A to C is relevant for backlinks as well as Related changes. If C does not exist, only backlinks are applicable.)
 * 08:26, 22 May 2005 User:Patrick m
 * 07:07, 22 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Other uses)
 * 06:58, 22 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Other uses)
 * 06:55, 22 May 2005 User:Patrick (This makes it a useful tool for finding double redirects, which do not work, and, except in special applications (see below) can better be replaced by redirects to the final target.)
 * 06:50, 22 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Other uses - mv up)
 * 06:47, 22 May 2005 User:Patrick
 * 06:41, 22 May 2005 User:Patrick m (→Other uses)
 * 06:30, 22 May 2005 User:Patrick m (→Other uses)
 * 00:04, 22 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Cases of transclusion)
 * 14:14, 21 May 2005 User:Patrick m (→Other uses)
 * 14:11, 21 May 2005 User:Patrick (As opposed to actual categories, the backlinks can show a tree structure: not only pages and subcategories, but also the contents of the subcategories, see [[Special:Whatlinkshere/Altcat:Help|Cat: He)
 * 13:52, 21 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Other uses)
 * 13:40, 21 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Other uses)
 * 13:33, 21 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Other uses)
 * 13:29, 21 May 2005 User:Patrick m (→Cases of transclusion)
 * 13:21, 21 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Other uses - This could be useful for a special-purpose category that should not clutter the regular list of categories.)
 * 13:11, 21 May 2005 User:Patrick (Links could be put specially for use with &quot;What links here&quot;, as an alternative category system, even to non-existing pages, e.g. Altcat:Help 1, see Special:Whatlinkshere/Altcat:Help 1. Putting)
 * 12:08, 13 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Cases of transclusion)
 * 12:03, 13 May 2005 User:Patrick m (→Cases of transclusion)
 * 12:02, 13 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Cases of transclusion)
 * 17:19, 20 April 2005 User:AnyFile
 * 14:08, 20 April 2005 User:AnyFile (→See also)
 * 14:07, 20 April 2005 User:AnyFile (→See also)
 * 15:26, 18 April 2005 User:Patrick m
 * 14:30, 18 April 2005 User:Patrick
 * 15:17, 25 February 2005 User:Patrick m (→Limitations)
 * 06:43, 29 October 2004 User:Jean-Christophe Chazalette m (Reverted edits by 221.194.206.191 to last version by AaronPeterson)
 * 04:30, 29 October 2004 User:221.194.206.191
 * 05:35, 23 September 2004 User:AaronPeterson m (bah, I added an extra ))
 * 05:32, 23 September 2004 User:AaronPeterson m (
 * 11:29, 21 September 2004 User:Patrick (no colon at the end of a header, please)
 * 11:07, 21 September 2004 User:AaronPeterson m (did headers, so a table of contents would pop up, if not desired, please use &lt;h&gt; tags? to suppress the toc?)
 * 06:18, 24 August 2004 User:Patrick m
 * 06:17, 24 August 2004 User:Patrick (it is recommended to add to the text in MediaWiki:Linkshere, as has been done here on Meta and on the English Wikipedia: &quot;(up to 500 are shown)&quot;.)
 * 05:57, 24 August 2004 User:Patrick (rm dup, http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&amp;target=John_Smith)
 * 05:51, 24 August 2004 User:Patrick (Every page has a link labelled &quot;What links here&quot; (or, more generally, labelled with the text in mediawiki:whatlinkshere), which can also be put in a page body with [[Special:Whatlinkshere/)
 * 05:29, 24 August 2004 User:Patrick (not more than 500 pages are listed; if there are more, there is no indication that the list is not complete; only by copying the list to an editor that can count lines and concluding that there are 50)
 * 14:42, 16 August 2004 User:Patrick (The feature can also be applied to itself and other special pages, e.g.:)
 * 12:53, 12 August 2004 User:Patrick ((excluding subpages that just have an automatic link to it).)
 * 10:57, 25 July 2004 User:Patrick (from Pump: When the link tables in the database are rebuilt, the lists are alphabetically ordered. However, adding a link subsequently causes it to be added to the end, and thus these occur in chronol)
 * 10:32, 24 June 2004 User:Patrick (*a link from a template is only treated as such, not as link from the pages that show the link because they refer to the template)
 * 10:27, 24 June 2004 User:Patrick m
 * 13:35, 14 June 2004 User:Patrick (Cases of transclusion:)
 * 10:05, 13 June 2004 User:Patrick (MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide:_Using_Categories#Relation_with_.22What_links_here.22)
 * 09:45, 13 June 2004 User:Patrick (adapted from *en:Wikipedia:What links here)